undergrowth

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The plants in a forest which only reach a relatively low height (such as shrubs and bushes).

   Tangled undergrowth.

2. 2
   noun

   the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest

From under- + growth. Cognate with West Frisian ûndergroei (“undergrowth”).

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